Nissan could apply Warrior badge to more models

Nissan Australia has suggested there is the potential for the Warrior nameplate to transfer across to other variants in the Nissan range, including the Patrol.

For now, though, Nissan Australia is focussed on successfully bringing the Navara PRO-4X Warrior to market.

"The focus has been on this project (PRO-4X Warrior) and bringing it to market and getting it right,” said Matt Baily, senior manager of Nissan Australia’s Local Product Development arm.

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"Future projects like the Patrol Warrior is a work in progress, but it doesn’t necessarily have to be limited to those vehicles.

“It could be applied to other vehicles and we have regular discussions with Premcar, where we’re working together on different opportunities and looking at what’s happening globally.

When asked whether the Nissan Titan was a part of those discussions, Baily told 4X4 Australia: "The Titan is a fantastic product, obviously there’s demand for those types of product in Australia. But the Titan project is quite different to this (PRO-4X Warrior) type of program. The complexities are quite different.”

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Premcar’s engineering director, Bernie Quinn, added that the brand’s Epping, Victoria, facility is more than up to the job if new Warrior variants were added to the assembly line, or if demand for the PRO-4X Warrior increased.

"We’ve set this facility up to be flexible and adaptable. We’ve deliberately moved a lot of the sub-assembly and we can add another line for a different vehicle or another variant of the Navara, or more Navaras,” said Quinn. "The point is, we’ve got that flexibility to go double in volume in one shift.”

Watch this space to see whether there’s any movement on this front.